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If you had any doubt about how bad the American health care system really is, let’s examine the case of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman. This case hits especially close to home because Dr. Lederman retired to and died in rural Idaho. Lederman was a co-discoverer of the muon neutrino, a sub-atomic particle predicted by…

A society that does not protect its children, by definition, is doomed. Yet the Trump Administration, across the board, has shown it is perfectly willing to sacrifice the health and well-being of children to allow its corporate underwriters to make an even bigger profit. WC offers four specific examples. The World Health Organization (WHO) proposed a…

Dear Senators Murkowski, Sullivan, Crapo and Risch – You probably haven’t heard of Jessica Pell? She’s just a New Jersey lady. She fainted and injured her ear back in 2016. She went to the emergency room at Hoboken University Medical Center. She was given an ice pack and an ace bandage. That was it. The bill…

Mrs. WC’s dad was born in 1923. Mrs. WC recently came across the receipt for the medical bill for his birth. So Mrs. WC’s father, Larry, had total hospital expenses of $62.00. That’s in 1923 dollars, of course. Adjusted for inflation, it would be $887.53. But that’s not today’s price; it’s not even close. Today, the…

WC will set aside his magpie sensibility long enough to attempt some follow up on issues written about earlier. It’s not journalism, and Bog knows it doesn’t happen often enough to be due diligence. WC has written a couple of times about iPhone encryption. The legal issue of whether it violates the Fifth Amendment’s guaranty…

Donald Trump isn’t the only Republican trumpeting that the Affordable Care Act is faling. But he is the only U.S. President who tweets the claim on a regular basis. Indeed, the claimed “failure” of Obamacare is a primary excuse for the various Republican efforts to repeal the ACA, or replace the ACA. Embarrassingly for Republicans,…

The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate kicked its health care “reform” bill down the road. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell didn’t have the votes to get it to the floor, let alone adopt it. So he was forced to put it off. The Senate, he says, will take it up “sometime after the 4th of July recess.”…